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Bill Rulon-Miller
@reptiledude.bsky.social
Checking out BlueSky because family is here and Twitter is no more. He/him. My degree is in history and my passion is in wildlife biology, conservation, and especially Herpetology. If you DM me and I don’t know you I may not answer so don’t get angry.
Happy Solstice from this butthead
December 22, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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party larva
December 21, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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December 20, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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This week, Professor James Hansen and colleagues published projections that the global temperature record could reach +1.7°C by 2027.
And if that number lands in your gut the way it landed in mine, good. It should.
#climatecrisis #auspol www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/two-yea...
Two Years to 1.7°C: the “Prediction Game” We Can’t Afford to Lose
Australia’s sweltering through another early-summer heatwave, and I’m trying to decide whether to write about the weather outside my window - or the bigger climate system we’re reengineering on this p...
www.lyrebirddreaming.com
December 20, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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You're telling me that Jake Paul and Andrew Tate both got their faces smashed in this weekend?

Christmas has arrived early! 😂
December 21, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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Lawmakers from both sides of the political aisle have turned on Attorney General Pam Bondi and have reportedly begun drafting articles of impeachment following the heavily opaque release of the Epstein files.
Bondi faces calls to be jailed as bipartisan impeachment articles are drafted
Several lawmakers accused Bondi of flouting the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which mandated the government to provide full disclosure of the Justice Department's findings related to the disgraced f...
www.themirror.com
December 20, 2025 at 10:58 PM
This #Caturday you get two getting into the spirit of the season
December 20, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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The newest episode of the pod dives into how scientists are learning to decode the calls of the endangered Hawaiian monk seals
Inside the Secret Soundscape of Hawaii’s Rarest Seal
Researchers uncover 20 new underwater calls from Hawaii’s endangered monk seals.
www.scientificamerican.com
December 19, 2025 at 3:09 PM
“The Great White Hype”, 1996
There’s also this real photo
December 20, 2025 at 4:16 PM
So my confession that many of you already know: I admin several wildlife ID pages on a certain Meta platform. AI imagery is getting worse and it has become the bane of my existence there in many ways.
December 20, 2025 at 12:40 AM
For this week’s #FossilFriday you get Dimetrodon, a Permian Sphenacodontoid Synapsid (a type of Mammal-like Reptile) that was arguably the top predator of its era.

Photo taken at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University
December 19, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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December 19, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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the title of this frog photograph goes unexpectedly hard
even the frogs are experiencing sectarian warfare right now I guess
December 19, 2025 at 2:34 AM
More pre-winter/early winter imagery
December 19, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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Indonesia’s first attempt to translocate a Javan rhino ended when Musofa died days after relocation, with officials citing long-standing health issues.

Conservationists say the setback shouldn’t halt efforts to save the critically endangered species.
Indonesia’s 1st Javan rhino translocation ends in death, in conservation setback
Conservation officials have announced the death the first Javan rhino ever translocated as part of Indonesia’s conservation program, marking a setback for efforts to protect the critically endangered…
news.mongabay.com
December 18, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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‘Magical’ galaxy frogs disappear after reports of photographers destroying their habitats www.theguardian.com/environment/...

#ExtinctionIsForever
‘Magical’ galaxy frogs disappear after reports of photographers destroying their habitats
Researcher in Kerala rainforest sounds alarm after being told frogs had died after being handled by humans
www.theguardian.com
December 17, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Also Happy Wednesday!
December 17, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Y'all this one was fun. I love when the subject is actually more radical than I expected, not less.
New Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff ⚔️

Margaret talks to Katy Stoll about the leaderless society that almost overthrew Rome.

@margaret.bsky.social @katystoll.bsky.social @whysophiewhy.bsky.social

www.iheart.com/podcast/1119...
December 15, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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A lot of people are about to find out about Waterfox
December 17, 2025 at 12:06 AM
The fuck is this?
December 16, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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Pauline Copes Johnson, a descendant of Harriet Tubman, has died at 98.

She spent a lifetime guarding that legacy from the small city where Tubman spent her final years

www.kolumnmagazine.com/2025/12/11/t...
December 16, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Does the Overton Window allow for defenestration?
December 16, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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“If everyone would just come to America and be a white Christian nationalist who worshipped Nazis then there would be no antisemitism“ is a take just stupid enough for JD Vance to actually believe it.
December 16, 2025 at 12:29 AM
More snow footage
December 15, 2025 at 7:46 PM